Thursday, April 7, 2011

Richard was a member of Company D 60th Tennessee Regiment. He enlisted 1862 Crawford's Regiment and Pritchett's Company D. He was captured at Vicksburg, Ms. on May 17th, 1863 and spent the next 21 months in prisoner of war camps. He was first sent to Camp Morton, Indiana; next to Fort Delaware, Delaware and finally to Point Lookout, Maryland where he was paroled or exchanged in February 1865.

Below is a link to the Picasa photo album where you can view his pension application:

Sands of Time

Genealogy just seemed to be a natural extension of the love I have for my family.

It started when I was just a "kid" and one of my great-aunts sent my Mom a copy of the family information she had put together. I was fascinated, but it was years and two children later before I really got the bug to find out more. It's been a journey of fascination and frustration :-)